The team needed someone, anyone, to help bolster the backend of the game. They got a closer in Ian Kennedy that did bolster them, but not before giving many fans a lot of palpitations. The question is: was he any good?
2021 stats
(w/ Philadelphia) 24 IP, 1.17 WHIP, 26.5 K%, 9.8 BB%, 2.63 HR/9, 4.13 ERA (6.21 FIP), -0.4 fWAR
The good
Kennedy was brought into a save situation 13 times as a member of the Phillies. Ten of those times, he walked away shaking the catcher’s hand.